Friday, May 5, 2017
His dancers have performed at Tate Modern and been lifted by cranes. Now, the maverick choreographer is taking them to the top of a multistorey carpark for a feverish protest showIt is dark,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMCatch 1927’s fable about our over-reliance on machines and explore the best of dance, as curated by Kate Tempest. Plus: Every Brilliant Thing and Voodoo1 GolemFew companies have the all-ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
The Place, LondonDidy Veldman launches her company with a terrific show that encourages its audience to experience dance as a surge of emotionAre you happy? This most banal but quintessentia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMMonday, May 1, 2017
Royal Opera House, LondonEdward Watson finds sympathy for the doomed prince while Sarah Lamb gives one of the performances of her career in MacMillan’s unsparingly brutal balletMayerling i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFriday, April 28, 2017
James Thierrée creates fairytale-style marvels, while the world’s biggest hip-hop dance-theatre festival returns for its 14th year1 The Toad KnewAs weird as it is compelling, the latest f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSaturday, April 22, 2017
Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo and Akram Khan are onboard, and contemporary, hip-hop and South Asian dance are added to the usual ballet fare. But there are flaws in this conceptDoes the dance w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMFriday, April 21, 2017
Laban theatre, LondonIn a stylish collaboration, the film-maker and choreographer explore the myth of a shadowy cult attempting world domination through mass brainwashingAgainst a rising tid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMTeen misfits save the day in Jack Thorne and Stephen Warbeck’s play, while the Royal Ballet tackles the Austro-Hungarian empire1 JunkyardIt may be more of a play with songs than a fully fl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMFriday, April 14, 2017
Two tales tackled by Disney are reimagined for the stage. Plus: Sally Cookson adapts Fellini’s La Strada and Dance International Glasgow returns1 The Lion KingIn hindsight it seems absurd …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMFriday, April 7, 2017
Theatre Royal, NorwichThere are powdered wigs and romps galore in Kenneth Tindall’s first full-length story ballet, but he never truly gets at his hero’s mind and heartThere is a properl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMSally Cookson captures the fragile heart of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, while Crystal Pite’s astounding take on grief and addiction returnsJane Eyre Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
For its 2017-18 season, the Royal Ballet pays tribute to Kenneth MacMillan and Leonard Bernstein – and brings in Liam Scarlett, Edmund de Waal and a take on a deranged silent movieOne of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMMonday, April 3, 2017
With its shameless courting of wealthy New York, George Balanchine’s plot-free ballet Jewels was initially seen as tacky. But its magical synthesis of ballet history means it has endured f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMFriday, March 24, 2017
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe first UK company to perform Pina Bausch’s epic piece hurl themselves against exhaustion as they draw us into a world of hypnotic emotionDancers were everything …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThursday, March 23, 2017
In hit movies like 42nd Street, Berkeley liberated dance from the stage and placed it in a purely cinematic dimension with dizzyingly inventive routinesA new West End production of 42nd Stre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMWednesday, March 22, 2017
Influential US choreographer first admired for her spare, subversive dances who underwent a radical shift as she was gripped by ‘a rapture to move’Trisha Brown, who has died aged 80, was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMFriday, March 17, 2017
Royal Opera House, LondonSet to Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern is brave and beautiful alongside work by Christopher Wheeldon and David DawsonIt’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMThursday, March 16, 2017
The Place, LondonJames Cousins deploys a language of sexual fluidity as his superb dancers bring passion and intimacy to a flirtation with Shakespeare’s heroineIn James Cousins’ bold rei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMSadler’s Wells, London Sergei Polunin and Natalia Osipova bring star power to an ambitious dance programme but despite some beautiful moves it’s a misjudged muddleEver since Sergei Polun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMMonday, March 13, 2017
Rosie Kay has trained with the army and delved into tribal rituals for her bold dance shows. In her latest, MK Ultra, she’s investigating the secret society believed to be brainwashing Bey…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMFriday, March 10, 2017
The Pit, Barbican, LondonThe dancer turned choreographer presents two pieces themed around identity and sexual fluidity, featuring some gorgeously sophisticated sequencesJulie Cunningham has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMSunday, March 5, 2017
Barbican, LondonThis eclectic triple bill draws inspiration from Debussy and Shostakovich before concluding with a riotous rendering of Little Red Riding HoodThere are so many shining ways i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMFriday, March 3, 2017
The Place, London With its violent seesaws between darkness and tender insight, Pita’s macabre cabaret confirms the choreographer as one of his generation’s leading storytellersWith his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMThursday, March 2, 2017
His debut show featured a duet in which a dancer never touched the ground. Now, James Cousins is staging his most ambitious piece yet, a modern take on As You Like It set in Seoul and inspir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, February 24, 2017
Barbican, London The company’s three works explore hothouse machismo, private headspace and colliding forces in Cuban society with power and urgencyIs Cuba finally about to emerge from dec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMChristopher Luscombe’s frisky production tackles male domination of the stage, while a new mixed bill at the Barbican features Annabelle Lopez Ochoa1 The Pitchfork DisneyExhilarating, tens…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev were the Bolshoi's golden couple – on stage and off. But their love affair is over and they're flirting with new kinds of dance. Judith Mackrell asks them…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMSteven Cantor’s intimate film about the rebellious dancer exposes the pressures heaped on young prodigies – and has vital lessons for the industryIn Dancer, Steven Cantor’s new film ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMFriday, February 17, 2017
Sadler’s Wells, London Galván’s wild flamenco reinventions show mesmerising prowess – though not when he’s being pelted by paper ballsThere’s good reason to fear the worst from th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMFriday, February 10, 2017
Sadler’s Wells, LondonIn Pina Bausch’s impressionistic travelogue of Portugal and Brazil, the dancers confess intimate memories, put their bodies on parade and enjoy larky gamesIt’s ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMFrom a full-blooded reimagination of Shakespeare to the best of a celebrated choreographer. Plus: Eurohouse, Joan, BU21 and more1 Richard IIIDavid Hare may be up in arms about the European i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AM 
